{"id":17432,"date":"2025-09-25T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:03:49","slug":"things-to-consider-when-selling-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=17432","title":{"rendered":"Things to Consider When Selling Your Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Things to Consider When Selling Your Boat<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"hydra-container\">\n<div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-1024x768.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Selling a boat to a private party\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BTG925-OMD-Law-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\">                <\/div><figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">There\u2019s more to selling a boat than cashing the check.<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Tim Bower<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/section>\n<p><iframe id=\"wxuzj5efbz\" src=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.dragonforms.com\/wxuzj5efbz\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few years back I sold a Honda automobile to a private party. I had no use for the license plates so I dropped them into my king-size municipal trash bin, and on a Thursday a city truck hoisted the bin with its robotic arm and dumped a week\u2019s worth of garbage, and my plates, into its hold and ambled on down the street.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later I received a letter from the Green Bay police department alerting me to two unresolved parking tickets\u2014pay up or come to court. Green Bay was 60 miles away. I had not been to Green Bay for many years. I finally realized that my old plates had been placed by a winter parking scofflaw on a brown Chevy Cavalier. It seemed nuts that someone sifted through tons of nasty trash to snag those plates and likely sold them because they had valid registration stickers. When I called the police, an officer asked if I\u2019d submitted a License Plates Cancellation Application (MV2514) to the Wisconsin DOT. I was not aware of MV2514. Lesson learned\u2014cut old plates into pieces before tossing them and submit MV2514. I had to pay those two tickets, and several more before the plates were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember that time your old plates got stolen?\u201d asked my good friend Chuck Larson. \u201cI think it works like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chuck and I were lounging at the Lake View Inn, rehashing the saga of Deep Thought, the 33-foot Chris-Craft Roamer that wound up beached last October on the sandy Lake Michigan shore near Milwaukee following a thunderstorm. The couple in command, who had just purchased Deep Thought and intended to run it home to Mississippi, mostly vanished. Initial efforts to salvage the boat failed, winter set in, and the boat became a graffiti-covered attraction. On May 6 a street was closed while a pair of heavy-duty tow trucks winched the steel-hulled vessel up the beach, over a barrier of rugged riprap, and eventually onto a flatbed trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved, but who would foot the $50,000 recovery bill? Certainly not the county, exclaimed local politicians. The couple who abandoned the boat claimed insolvency from their hideout in Mississippi. Then it was revealed that the Mississippians purchased, but never registered, the boat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible that the previous owner may be on the hook for this,\u201d opined Wally from behind the Lake View bar. \u201cBecause technically, they still are the owner?\u201d This was also a preliminary opinion of the county corporation counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this defies logic,\u201d Chuck said. \u201cThe previous owner didn\u2019t leave the boat on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForget logic. We\u2019re talking the law,\u201d Wally said. \u201cThe previous owner made two mistakes. They transferred the title but did not complete a bill of sale. It seems they also failed to comply with state statute 30.549(1)(b), which requires that the seller send written notification to the Department of Natural Resources within 15 days of completing the sale. After notifying the DNR, the boat will be removed from your list of registered boats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/how-to\/navigate-boat-buying-online\/\">How to Navigate Boat Buying Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like my license plates. So, let\u2019s learn from another boater\u2019s mistakes. To accomplish a private boat sale, sign over the title, complete a bill of sale (I suggest using the form at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bit.ly\/boatbillofsale_USCG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/boatbillofsale_USCG<\/a>) and alert your state authority that those hull-side registration numbers are no longer your responsibility. By the way, there may be a vintage, steel-hulled Chris-Craft Roamer for sale in Milwaukee. It needs a little work.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/boats\/things-to-consider-when-selling-your-boat\/\">Things to Consider When Selling Your Boat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/\">Boating Mag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Charles Plueddeman<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/boatingmag.com\/boats\/things-to-consider-when-selling-your-boat\/\">Go to boatingmag<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things to Consider When Selling Your Boat There\u2019s more to selling a boat than cashing the check. Tim Bower A few years back I sold a Honda automobile to a private party. 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